Open Letter to the development Team.

[Valoria3]

Dear Developers. While your doing a wonderful job with the game I would love to point out something that have made me giggle a lot through out the years.
If you take down the servers to apply a patch it is NOT a HOT fix. A hot fix is done on the run with no down time (other then a quick reset usually around 15 minutes) If you take the down the servers it ceases to be a hot fix. In fact the term can be traced back to Steam engine engineers that sometimes had to work on they engines while they were running hence HOT.. It have since been picked up in Software slang as well and here is the definition of it.
"A hotfix is a change made to the program deemed critical enough that it cannot be held off until a regular content patch. Hotfixes require only a server-side change with no download and can be implemented with no downtime, or a short restart of the realms."

[technole]

Nah, we have hotfixes ourselves that require server downtime, the term hotfix has no bearing whether it requires servers to cycled hot or a full downtime required. Hotfix is a traditional term for a quick-fix engineering update (QFE), it's made outside of the normal versioning process to fix X issue(s) immediately based on current production code, not the next development. Hence why the version number doesn't go up on the client.

[DayHealer]

I want a hotfix of the moderation of these forums.

[Ranaku]

"A hotfix or quick-fix engineering update (QFE update) is a single, cumulative package that includes information (often in the form of one or more files) that is used to address a problem in a software product (i.e., a software bug). Typically, hotfixes are made to address a specific customer situation."

Or the definition from Oxford Languages: "a small piece of code developed to correct a major software bug or fault and released as quickly as possible."

The definition you still have in mind is outdated and that makes me giggle. Also you don't know if the systems aren't still running, just cause you don't have access to the servers atm doesn't mean they are shut down for maintenance.

Edit: I do however really like the fact, makes me giggle too, that you get your definition from Wowpedia. Which refers to the hotfixes that Blizzard makes on their game. WHICH IS NOT THE STANDARD DEFINITION FOR THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY. But it does make for a good giggle, yeah!

[MsQi]

I seem to recall that Blizzard developed that meaning for "hotfix" after several years. At one point they discovered they could change how an action or item worked in game without taking down the servers or applying a client side patch. They would then warn players that the way things work may not correspond to their descriptions until a patch could be applied.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Dear Developers. While your doing a wonderful job with the game I would love to point out something that have made me giggle a lot through out the years.
If you take down the servers to apply a patch it is NOT a HOT fix. A hot fix is done on the run with no down time (other then a quick reset usually around 15 minutes) If you take the down the servers it ceases to be a hot fix. In fact the term can be traced back to Steam engine engineers that sometimes had to work on they engines while they were running hence HOT.. It have since been picked up in Software slang as well and here is the definition of it.
"A hotfix is a change made to the program deemed critical enough that it cannot be held off until a regular content patch. Hotfixes require only a server-side change with no download and can be implemented with no downtime, or a short restart of the realms."

Dear SE, please make content last longer or we end up with crap posts like this :P

[TaleraRistain]

Nah, we have hotfixes ourselves that require server downtime, the term hotfix has no bearing whether it requires servers to cycled hot or a full downtime required. Hotfix is a traditional term for a quick-fix engineering update (QFE), it's made outside of the normal versioning process to fix X issue(s) immediately based on current production code, not the next development. Hence why the version number doesn't go up on the client.

This. Just means it's a fix outside of the larger release schedule.

[KitingGenbu]

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Won't change, SE has been doing this sense the XI days.

[Shinkuno]

This thread is a good proof how people will defend literally anything regarding to this game. Funny how NO OTHER DEVELOPER makes 3 hour downtimes for a supposedly "hotfix"

Almost like it has a very distinct meaning.

[TheMightyMollusk]

This thread is a good proof how people will defend literally anything regarding to this game. Funny how NO OTHER DEVELOPER makes 3 hour downtimes for a supposedly "hotfix"

Almost like it has a very distinct meaning.

This post is good proof how some people will jump to complain and be contrary without actually reading the thread first.